The National Secular Society said today that there would be few British citizens who will not be both baffled and dismayed by BBC reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, believes the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable" and might actually help social integration.

Reacting to the news that the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, has said that he doesn’t believe in God, the National Secular Society (NSS) said that he should be commended for his honesty.

The National Secular Society has condemned as ‘sinister’ the news that a group of Catholic Labour MPs are threatening to defy the Government whip on embryology legislation, following a meeting with Cardinal Murphy O’Connor.

The parliamentary debate called for on Wednesday 5 December by Mark Pritchard MP on ‘Christianophobia’ has been condemned by the National Secular Society as a bizarre display of religious paranoia and a waste of precious parliamentary time.